help with the travelletmap.com.thingy

[VonPickles]

So my regular game has folded real time, due to location, work, and available times etc but my players are keen to look at playing online! So I will be using Obsidian Portal, however I need to map the sector, and don't know where to start I have all subsectors mapped, but they are all in 0101 - 0810 etc how do I convert that to the sector numbering? Also I'm told not all codes transfer across, and that GG's don't show. Also I'm aware I need to provide a bk6 stat rating, without going back is there an average or common types I can just drop in instead of rolling 300+ stars?

 

[BytePro]

Are you using http://www.travellermap.com/post.htm?

The example data under 'POST Form Data' should help. Gas Giants work - but they are in the PBG format, not the G at position 38 per (http://www.travellermap.com/formats.htm).

Converting subsector hex ids to sector is probably gonna be a pain. You are probably stuck doing the math manually or with something like excel (assuming you aren't programming) as I don't think travellermap is setup to do that for you as the sector data format it is expecting has no explicit way of knowing which subsector a particular 0104 is...

Lesser pain might be to just feed one subsector at a time - and use the options to only show subsector A (and do any subsector labeling yourself).

I don't see any requirement to provide stellar information (the example does not).

Hope this helps...

 

[aramis]

To convert SS Hex No to Sector Hex No...

A SSHx+0000
B SSHx+0800
C SSHx+1600
D SSHx+2400
E SSHx+0010
F SSHx+0810
G SSHx+1610
H SSHx+2410
I SSHx+0020
J SSHx+0820
K SSHx+1620
L SSHx+2420
M SSHx+0030
N SSHx+0830
O SSHx+1630
P SSHx+2430

Put in the hex numbers into a spreadsheet in col B with the SS letter as a number (A=1, B=2, etc) in A, and use col C for the "SHx" - and the formula (starting in C2) =choose(a1,0000,0800,1600,2400,0010,0810,1610,2410,0020,0820,1620,2420,0030,0830,1630,2430)+b2 then fill it down.